CapnHarlock here, in Winchester VA, USA. I just received 2 Sony PRS600's, and so far, loving mine, in general.

I hate to begin with a problem, but my gf's machine (she's 9 hrs away in Kentucky at school, and not a techie) is having issues already (I got it for her to carry all her class readings, alas, in .pdf format)

While showing off the new toy, she opened a .pdf, and attempted to zoom in the content to increase font size. Instead, font size decreased and th eReader locked up completely. Power switch not working, soft reset button has no effect. Not-quite-bricked.

Any ideas?

On the positive side, there is a fairly-comprehensive user manual available at the www.sony.com site, if anyone needs it.

Welcome CapnHarlock -- glad to see you've joined us here at MobileRead. Unfortunately, I don't know what to recommend to free up the PRS600. I've been very disappointed with PDF "support" on every device I've tried it on, but one would not expect the device to freeze-up when viewing it.

CapnHarlock here, in Winchester VA, USA. I just received 2 Sony PRS600's, and so far, loving mine, in general.

I hate to begin with a problem, but my gf's machine (she's 9 hrs away in Kentucky at school, and not a techie) is having issues already (I got it for her to carry all her class readings, alas, in .pdf format)

While showing off the new toy, she opened a .pdf, and attempted to zoom in the content to increase font size. Instead, font size decreased and th eReader locked up completely. Power switch not working, soft reset button has no effect. Not-quite-bricked.

Any ideas?

On the positive side, there is a fairly-comprehensive user manual available at the www.sony.com site, if anyone needs it.

Thanks to the site-owners for creating a very useful resource

Welcome to MR, CapnHarlock, and sorry that your first post is about a problem.

I have the 505 and haven't had but one problem with a pdf. It was a very large book and kept freezing my Reader, especially when I changed the font size.

Maybe, your girlfriend is loading a lot of pdf's? Or some very large pdf school book files on the Reader? Or when she changes the font size on a large pdf it takes a while to repagnate and freezes?

I just finally USB hooked up and deleted the book from my Reader in order to get it to work again.

Also, on my 505 it moves from S to M to L. If you are on L then you have to go back to S then M to get to the M font size. Maybe it hung up on all the changing?

Hopefully, a member with experience on the 600 will chime in soon with some help.

I wish I could help with your pdf issues, but I've never read pdf's on my 700. If you don't get the help you need here, try reposting your problem in the Sony Reader forum. I'm sure someone there will be able to give you some good advice. Good luck.

if any of my VA neighbors wish to help even more, my ex and daughter were unable to make it here for dinner - I have the proverbial "boatload" of braised beef shank "osso buco" (red wine, mirepoix, bacon, mushrooms and roasted tomatoes) and roasted potatoes -
just let me know

I was close to Winchester this morning. We turned off I-81 at Strasberg onto I-64 and rolled into Richmond around noon. If I'd known you were cooking dinner, I might have just stayed on I-81 and dropped in!